Day: July 25, 2009

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-07-25

  • Awoke with a horrible sinus headache. Waiting for the coffee to finish so I can take some with some allergy meds. #
  • Having work done in the kitchen and basement this weekend. #
  • I have to facilitate a focus group on Tuesday and need to record the audio. Anybody have any recorders and mics they can recommend? #
  • I need to facilitate a focus group on Tuesday and need to record the audio. Can you recommend any recorders? Need to buy it ASAP. #

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Qualitative Reliability, Validity, and Generalizability

As I am continuing to develop my idea that I published yesterday, Research Design: Communities of Practice for Autoethnographers, I want to clarify one of the issues that some of my wonderful colleagues commented about, namely the issue of Reliability, Validity, and Generalizability.

While I used those terms in that area based on Creswell’s Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches work (pg. 190), I put it there primarily as a place-holder so those in my program who will offer me some comments on it will know that I will, in some way, address it. What I actually had in mind was Lincoln and Guba’s Naturalistic Inquiry, where they give 4 areas of concern for qualitative Trustworthiness:

  1. “Truth value”
  2. Applicability
  3. Consistency
  4. Neutrality

These four were offered to address the quantitative internal validity, external validity, reliability, and objectivity.

I will address these as I engage with my research, and share aspects of them here.